Teledyne T3SP Series User manual

Operator’s Manual
T3SP-Series Time Domain
Reectometer

T3SP-Series Operator’s Manual
T3SP-Series Operator’s Manual
Revision E - December 20, 2021
Relang to the following release versions:
Soware Version Rev. 1.8.0 and later
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All rights reserved. Specicaons, prices, availability and delivery subject to
change without noce. Product brand or brand names are trademarks or
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T3 stands for Teledyne Test Tools.
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Contents
1 General Information about the T3SP Series 7
1.1 Intended Applicaon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 Disclaimer............................ 7
1.3 Contents of Packing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2 Commissioning 9
2.1 GeneralRemarks........................ 9
2.2 Soware Conguraon File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3 SowareStartup........................ 10
2.4 Power Supply & USB Connecon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.5 Descripon of the Applicaon Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.5.1 MainWindow ..................... 11
2.5.1.1 Samples................... 12
2.5.1.2 Sample List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5.1.3 Macro List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5.2 Oscilloscope Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.5.3 Result Visualizaon Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.5.4 Opons Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.6 Soware Operaon Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.6.1 Sample List Operaon Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.6.2 Macro Operaon Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.6.3 Quick Operaon Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.7 Login with Limited User Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3 Quick Start Guide 31
4 Three-Term & 12-Term Correction 38
4.1 Fundamentals ......................... 38
4.2 Requirements.......................... 38
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4.3 Calibraon Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.4 General Remarks on reloading TTC/12TC Data . . . . . . . . 41
4.5 Status Indicators for TTC & 12TC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5 Measurement Modes 44
5.1 Impedance Measurements (Modes TDR & DTDR) . . . . . . 44
5.1.1 General Recommendaons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5.1.2 Reference Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5.1.3 Impedance Measurement Properes Window . . . . 49
5.1.4 User-dened Impedance Masks . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.2 (D)S11 - Measurement Mode (Return Loss) . . . . . . . . . . 56
5.3 S-Parameters (Scaering Matrix, oponal) . . . . . . . . . . 57
6 Frequency Domain Smoothing 59
7 De-Embedding 60
7.1 De-Embedding Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
7.2 The De-Embedding Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.3 Creang De-Embedding S-Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
7.4 Addional Remarks on De-Embedding . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
8 Import & Export Modules 65
8.1 PDF-Export Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
8.2 CSV-Export Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
8.3 Touchstone-Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
8.4 Matlab-Export ......................... 67
9 Workshop Files 68
10 ESD-Protection Module 69
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11 RF-Multiplexer (optional Hardware) 71
11.1 Assigning Channels to Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
11.2 Calibraon of the Mulplexer (TTC/12TC) . . . . . . . . . . . 73
11.3 De-Embedding of the Mulplexer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
11.4 Addional Remarks on Mulplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
12 Additional Information 78
12.1 Descripon of the Toolbar Items in the Main Window . . . . 78
12.2 Descripon of the Toolbar Items in the Result Window . . . 80
12.3 Descripon of the Main Window Menu Items . . . . . . . . 81
12.4 Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
13 Technical Specications 88
13.1 T3SP-Series Mainframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
13.2T3SP-DPROBE.......................... 89
13.3T3SP-DPROBE-F......................... 90
13.4T3SP-SEP ............................ 90
13.5T3SP-SEPROBE-F ........................ 91
14 Troubleshooting 92
15 Safety Instructions 94
15.1 Operang Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
15.2Power.............................. 94
15.3 Safety Symbols & Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
15.4 Safety Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
16 Maintenance 97
17 Certications 98
17.1EMCCompliance........................ 98
17.1.1 EC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY - EMC . . . . . . 98
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17.1.2 AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND DECLARATION OF CON-
FORMITY–EMC .................... 99
17.2 Safety Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
17.2.1 EC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY – LOW VOLTAGE 100
17.3 Environmental Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
17.3.1 END-OF-LIFE HANDLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
17.3.2 RESTRICTION OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES (RoHS) . 101
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1. General Informaon about the T3SP Series
The T3SP series is developed to perform true dierenal TDR measurement.
Complementary step signals with an ultra-wide bandwidth are emied and
acquired by the instrument. The signals are applicable to external compo-
nents via the coaxial connectors.
Please read this operaon manual carefully before commissioning the T3SP,
to avoid incorrect operaon of the instrument. Keep this manual carefully
the enre life-me of the instrument. Subsequently the T3SP TDR is gener-
ally described as “device”.
1.1 Intended Application
The device is exclusively intended for usage in conjuncon with the deliv-
ered soware. Upon request soware libraries are available to integrate
the device control into other soware environments. Beware of using the
device for purposes other than intended.
1.2 Disclaimer
Warranty or liability claims for personal or property injury are excluded if
they are caused by one or more of the following reasons:
•Usage of the device for other purposes as described in this manual
•Disregarding the instrucons for correct operaon of the device
•Disregarding the safety instrucons listed in this operaon manual
•Opening of the instrument by the customer or user
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1.3 Contents of Packing
•T3SP me-domain reectometer
•USB 2.0 cable, Mini USB-B to USB-A
•External power supply: input 100-240VAC, output 24VDC, max. 3A
•Integrated ESD-protecon module
•Metal or plasc storage and transport case
•ESD-protecon kit
•Cables
•Calibraon kit including RF connector torque wrench
•Adapters (oponal)
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2. Commissioning
Before the rst start of operaon you have to install the provided Seunis
soware. Please follow the installaon instrucons given by the soware.
Before starng the soware connect the device and turn it on. The soware
automacally detects the connected instrument.
Remark: In rare cases, the device cannot be found. Please see the troubleshoong
secon 14 for further informaon.
2.1 General Remarks
The Seunis measurement soware was designed to make series measure-
ments and therefore the central element of the main window is a spread-
sheet-like table. For a beer understanding, some regularly used terms are
dened below:
Sample Synonym for object / device under test (DUT)
Sample List Collecon of samples in the spreadsheet table
(D)TTC =
(Dierenal)
Three-Term
Correcon
Error correcon method, removes systemac device &
external cable/connector errors
12TC =
Twelve Term
Correcon
Error correcon method for full 2-port S-parameter
measurements. Only used if full 2-port measurement
mode is available
Measurement
Modes
The soware is capable of measuring various
parameters (impedance, S11, etc.). These
funconalies are called measurement modes
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2.2 Software Conguration File
Some specialized hidden opons and funconalies can only be modied via
the soware conguraon le Seunis.cong. The default locaon of the con-
guraon le is C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Teledyne.
2.3 Software Startup
To start the soware, the device must be switched on, as the available mea-
surement modes are read out from the internal memory. Alternavely the
soware can be started with the Teledyne Viewer Key.
2.4 Power Supply & USB Connection
To enable measurements, connect the USB port of the instrument to a com-
puter. Please follow the instrucons given below:
•If available plug the Mini-USB-B plug connector of the USB-cable into
the corresponding USB-jack connector of the device and the USB-A
plug into a USB-port of your computer.
•Turn on the device by pressing the power buon for more than 1 sec-
ond. Aer a few seconds, the buon LED changes to red. The device
can be turned o by pressing the power buon for more than 3 sec-
onds.
•The 2-state red-green LED signals have the following meaning:
Green blinking LED: Device switched o, baery charging acve
Red blinking LED: Device switched on, baery charging acve
Red LED turned on: Device switched on, baery charging nished
•The soware will automacally probe your USB ports to communicate
with the device. You can check if this was successful in the status bar
on the boom of the Main Window, which shows whether the device
is Connected or Not connected.
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